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COVID-19 rules ease up in Gibraltar as new cases drop to a trickle
On February 22, schools and playgrounds will re-open and sports will be able to played once again
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MASKS will now not have to be worn outside Gibraltar’s town centre after very few new active cases were reported this week.
Chief Minister Fabian Picardo delivered the news in what he said could be his last live press conference on COVID-19.
It has delighted local residents who from Monday will be able to return to school, start doing sports, go to children’s parks and buy lottery tickets.
Elderly lockdown and curfew to continue in Gibraltar, says Picardo
Cases are now down to 177, the lowest since mid-December when this wave first started
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The number of active cases dropped to 177, the lowest since mid-December when the latest wave started.
Chief Minister Fabian Picardo held a minute’s silence for the pandemic casualties, the latest death last night bringing the total to 80 on the Rock.
Yesterday’s victim was a 90 to 95-years-old resident of a government nursing home who died of brain problems with COVID-19.
He called the amount of deaths to COVID-19 ‘remarkable’ and urged the community to continue to observe lockdown restrictions.
Four more deaths as new infections drop to six and vaccination programme resumes
Cargo is offloaded from the RAF transport plane that delivered a third batch of 8,100 vaccines to Gibraltar on Saturday.
Photo by Johnny Bugeja 31st January 2021
Frontline healthcare workers and the elderly began receiving their second dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccines yesterday, as the Gibraltar Government reported four more deaths over the weekend even as the number of new infections continued to drop.
The Royal Air Force delivered a third batch of vaccines on Saturday night, the equivalent of 8,100 doses on the basis that six vaccines are extracted from each vial.
The Gibraltar Government has confirmed the Covid-19 related deaths of two more local residents, bringing the death toll to 47.
Chief Minister Fabian Picardo lamented the deaths but added Elderly Residential Services had also seen some recoveries.
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